Date posted: 09/17/2009*

For the fifth consecutive year, Raytheon achieved a score of 100 percent on the Human Rights Campaign (HRC) Corporate Equality Index (CEI). The HRC, the nation’s largest lesbian, gay, bisexual and transgender (LGBT) rights organization, uses the CEI as a means to rate U.S. companies on how they treat their LGBT employees, consumers and investors. Companies with a 100 percent rating are also named to the organization’s Best Places to Work list.

In 2005, Raytheon was the first defense and aerospace company to score 100 percent on the CEI.

"We are proud to continue to align with the important criteria set forth by the Human Rights Campaign. We have raised the bar in our efforts to create an inclusive and open environment for all of our employees, and this ranking is further proof of our continued dedication,” said Hayward Bell, Raytheon’s chief diversity officer.

The Corporate Equality Index, which was first reported by the HRC in 2002, rates companies on a scale of zero to 100 percent, based on a number of criteria, including whether they:

  • include “sexual orientation” in their nondiscrimination policy;
  • include “gender identity and/or expression” in their non-discrimination policy;
  • offer same-sex domestic-partner health insurance;
  • officially recognize and support a LGBT employee resource group or have a firm-wide diversity council that includes GLBT issues;
  • engage in respectful and appropriate marketing to the LGBT community and/or provide support of LGBT community.

“The Corporate Equality Index 2010 shows that, even in the most challenging economy, leading employers are forging ahead of federal and state law to recruit and retain a diverse workforce — regardless of employees’ sexual orientation and gender identity or expression,” said Human Rights Campaign Foundation President Joe Solmonese.

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